The Bushwick Starr

08/27/2024

Get ready to celebrate the Starr's new home! Please join us for an Open House event on Saturday, September 7 from 4-8pm

A community celebration with food, drink, live music, and venue tours. We can't wait to welcome you in!

This event is FREE, but please RSVP:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/34289/production/1210277

02/26/2024

https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/starr-reading-series

The next round of our Starr Reading Series is coming up!
February 27, 28, 29 and March 5, 6 at 7pm
Tickets are FREE!
At:
CPR – Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

02/06/2024

https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/job-posting We are seeking a full-time Facilities Manager + Assistant Technical Director to join our team! This is a key new role in the Starr’s mission to support our communities as we move into our new building.

Applications will be accepted through March 15th (or until filled). Full details about the position can be found at https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/job-posting

02/01/2024

https://www.backstage.com/casting/presencia-2758082/

We are casting for our upcoming musical production, "Presencia"! Seeking playful, athletic, physically-oriented storytellers who thrive in a collaborative environment. Experience with acrobatics, clowning, puppetry, contemporary dance, and street styles is a plus.

Mei Ann Teo, Director; William Carlos Angulo, Choreographer; Michelle J. Rodriguez, Writer-Composer; Machel Ross, Casting Coordinator

Casting "Presencia," a musical. Seeking playful, athletic, physically-oriented storytellers who thrive in a collaborative environment. Experience with acrobatics,

01/29/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/theater/obie-awards-dark-disabled-stories.html

So thrilled that Ryan Haddad's Dark Disabled Stories took home 3 Obies on Saturday!!!

There was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.

01/11/2024

Tix are now on sale for our upcoming show, SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE), the newest work by playwright Phillip Howze, directed by Dominique Rider!

Beginning Feb. 6 at JACK
Seating is limited-- get tix here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34289/production/1188499

An inventive, impressionistic new work that blurs the lines between personal and collective memory, refracting and reframing how we spectate in America. Suspended at the edge of confrontation and contemplation, when put together these discursive theatrical portraits – performed in promenade – invite an expansive vision of Blackness and civil society in today’s age, while also opening new portals into the possibility of our greater, shared and speculative futures.

08/01/2023

https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/job-posting We are seeking a full-time Production Manager to join our team! This is a pivotal position at the Starr focused on supporting and facilitating our productions and events.

Applications will be accepted through September 8th. Full details about the position can be found at thebushwickstarr.org/job-posting

05/21/2023

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-demons-haunt-a-divided-family-in-mourning_1703098/

"Simultaneously relatable and fantastical, demons. is an imaginative exploration of grief, generational trauma, and demonic possession" - Zachary Stewart

Running thru June 3. Get tix at thebushwickstarr.org!

|Keelay Gipson’s surreal play tells the story of demonic possession following the death of a patriarch. ||Off-Broadway|Ashton Muñiz,Bushwick Starr,Christopher B. Portley,demons,Donell James Foreman,Gayle Samuels,Joseph Lymous,Keelay Gipson,Paige Gilbert

04/06/2023

https://lortelaward.com/2023-nominees/

Huge congrats to DARK DISABLED STORIES for receiving 4 Lortel Award nominations, including Outstanding Play!! Performances run through this Sunday, April 9th only!

2023 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS NOMINATIONS Outstanding Play A Case for the Existence of God Produced by Signature Theatre Written by Samuel D. Hunter Dark Disabled Stories Produced by The Bushwick Starr, presented by The Public Theater Written by Ryan J. Haddad Downstate Produced by Playwrights Horizons...

03/31/2023

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/04/theater/In-Conversation-Keelay-Gipson-with-Marcus-Scott
Check out this wonderful interview with Keelay Gipson by Marcus Scott in The Brooklyn Rail! Official announcement about our upcoming production of Keelay's new show is coming next week- stay tuned!

"Keelay Gipson, an award-winning multi-disciplinary Afro-surrealist dramatist, activist, and teaching artist, knows what it means to battle your inner demons and come out the other side."

Keelay Gipson, an award-winning multi-disciplinary Afro-surrealist dramatist, activist, and teaching artist, knows what it means to battle your inner demons and come out the other side.

03/20/2023

https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/03/getting-into-it/
Thanks to Kevin Ritter at Urban Omnibus for writing this in depth article about accessibility in theater and public spaces.
"Theaters suffer from accessibility issues across the board. Many old Broadway houses have no elevator at all; accessibility features are often built for audiences but not for the performers and crew backstage."

For artists and audiences with disabilities, traditional theater spaces can present significant barriers. A new production by Ryan Haddad seeks to build access into the show’s design.